The Bruery Releases Share This™ OC: Imperial Stout for Charity

I absolutely love Imperial Stouts! Last year, The Bruery launched the recurring Share This™ series of Imperial Stouts that make use of unique ingredients. Even better, as a way of giving back, the The Bruery donates $1 from each purchase to a charitable organization in the region that inspired or contributed to each release's signature ingredient.

The first release in the Share This™series showcased coffee from the Philippines. The second release featured mole from Mexico. The Bruery donated $50,000 to support the Free Wheelchair Mission's charitable work each country.

The Bruery just announced the third release in this charitable series. Share This™:OC features orange zest, cacao nibs and vanilla beans. Appropriately, this beer will benefit Food Forward, a produce bank in Orange County. It sounds like a delicious combination!

Share This™:OC will be distributed across The Bruery's national footprint. If you're an imperial stout fan, keep an eye out for it. Great beer and a worthy cause—it doesn't get much better than that! For more details, check out the press release below.

Placentia, CA: The Bruery’s third installment in their Share This series of imperial stouts will be released to the public starting in March. Each Share This beer is made in partnership with a charity in order to give money back to the region which inspired, or contributed to, the beer’s flavor profile.

The third release in this series was inspired by The Bruery’s home county and its history as a significant growing region for oranges. It is the first time the donation will go towards efforts in the United States, with a hyperlocal focus on Food Forward’s work in Southern California. The rich, imperial stout base, already chock full of notes of chocolate and roast, is dosed with orange zest, TCHO cacao nibs, and vanilla beans, to create the orange-chocolate Share This: OC.

"It’s hard to not have an affinity for oranges when you grow up in Orange County," shared The Bruery Founder & CEO Patrick Rue. "Oranges and chocolate are a natural pair, each flavor enhancing the other. We’re excited to bring this flavor combination to Share This, and to support Food Forward, a local charity that benefits our community by providing delicious, fresh fruit to those who might not have access to it otherwise."

Beers in the Share This series are released twice annually, with the next release to be announced in fall of 2017. The Bruery has donated $50,000 for Share This: Coffee, and has committed the donation of an additional $50,000 for Share This: Mole, to Free Wheelchair Mission.

"We are thrilled to be the selected non-profit to benefit from the current release of Share This." expressed Food Forward Founder & Executive Director, Rick Nahmias. "The ethos, practices and vibe of The Bruery is so aligned with Food Forward and our work to eradicate food waste and act as a bridge to get fresh healthy produce to over 1.25 million of our region's most vulnerable. The generosity of this program and partnership is a huge boon to Food Forward and will allow us to continue to deepen our work to harvest food, fight hunger and build community across Southern California."

Founded in 2008, The Bruery is a small, innovative craft brewery located in Orange County, CA that is family-owned and operated with CEO, Founder, and Master Cicerone® Patrick Rue at its helm. The Bruery produces barrel-aged and experimental beers, while Bruery Terreux®, launched in 2015, focuses on fermenting beer with wild yeasts and souring bacteria.

ABOUT FOOD FORWARD

Food Forward rescues fresh, local produce that would normally go to waste from backyard fruit trees, public orchards, farmers markets, and the downtown Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market. 100% of the recovered produce is donated to hunger relief agencies across eight counties in Southern California, reaching over 100,000 people a month.